Coffee Please

A new day dawns, but the sun stays hidden behind a heavy bank of clouds. Oh how I miss the sun. The feel of its warmth on my face as I bask in its glory, but no, there is no sun. Only an endless sky of grey. I can almost feel their giddy anticipation as they wait to expel their watery contents on the already flooded ground.

But the rain stirs my mind and I have a chance to produce. With yesterdays rain I had a chance to finish the second stage of the Mermaid Collection. First stage was the pencil sketches I posted before. The second stage was the line art done in ink. A painstakingly long task using various widths of ink. I think I used up at least four pens drawing the lines.

As much as I would like to begin stage three, adding color, I think I will spend majority of the day revising Soul of the Lost, and writing a paper for school. Stage three of the Mermaid Collection may begin this evening or tomorrow. Either way I have high expectations for the day. Lots of coffee and tons accomplished.

Stage 2 of Mermaid Collection:

Finished

I feel like this is a good of time as any to begin a blog to help chronicle how things are going, not just with my writing but with my other artistic endeavors. Well the first draft of Soul of the Lost is done. 80,000 words! And now revisions have begun. Of course that light I saw at the end of the tunnel while coming to the end of Soul of the Lost is shrinking in the distance now that revisions have started. So far I have added nearly 10,000 words of edited material and I am hardly into the novel. Oh well. The extra work it takes to hone my writing skills and polish this sucker into the beautiful gem I know it is will be well worth it. Then it will be time to get the sequel started~